Are you familiar with the term—Community
Informatics?
According to the Wikipedia: "...Community Informatics, also known as community networking or electronic community
networking, is an emerging academic discipline and field of practice in applied Information and Communications
Technology (ICT)..."
This is a field near and dear to the hearts of many socio-techno geeks—such as myself—who are involved in the creation
of viable online communities.
There is also a Journal of Community Informatics and the first issue is now
available. This inaugural issue can be downloaded and/or viewed either on an
individual article basis or as a
119 page pdf file.
The article I am reading right now is
Building Community Social
Capital: The Potential and Promise of Information and Communications Technologies, by Kenneth E. Pigg and
Laura Duffy Crank.
